Al-Tayba () is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 18 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, and 2 km east of Umm el-Fahm in Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,386 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,215 in 2017.Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
History The current village was covering as of 2016 the slopes surrounding an ancient khirba (ruined village), Khirbet et-Taiybeh.Zertal & Mirkam (2016), pp. 122-123 The ancient village only covered the southern slope of a hill and the ravine to its south. Excavations indicate that it was mainly active in the Late Roman, Byzantine,Dauphin, 1998, pp. 743-4 and Medieval periods, with lesser findings from the Persian, Early Muslim and Ottoman periods.
Ottoman period All of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
Zertal writes that after no mention of the village in Medieval sources, a "Tayyiba" of six Muslim households appears in the Ottoman census of 1596, but he found no proof that this is the same settlement as the future Khirbet et-Taiybeh, known today as al-Tayba. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah also mention the 1596 tax register with "Tayyiba" being part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Sha'ara under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 6 Muslim households.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 160 The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 3,500 akçe.
Al-Tayiba began as a small dependency of the so-called "Fahmawi Commonwealth" established by Hebronite clans belonging to Umm al-Fahm. The Commonwealth consisted of a network of interspersed communities connected by ties of kinship, and socially, economically and politically affiliated with Umm al Fahm. The Commonwealth dominated vast sections of Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, Wadi 'Ara and Marj Ibn 'Amir/Jezreel Valley during that time.
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village, as Tayibat Umm al-Fahm (with a classifier after the major neighboring village) in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby. Likewise, the Palestinian Rural History Project records al-Taiyiba as a subsidiary site, or satellite village of Umm al-Fahm.
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found here "a modern ruined village with springs."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
Jordanian period In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, al-Tayba came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 467 inhabitants in Taiyiba.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
Post-1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, al-Tayba has been under Israeli occupation.
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External links Welcome To Kh. al-Tayiba at palestineremembered.com Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons